The main selling point of that feature is to charge for access to scraping websites.

They don’t care that your website gets scraped, they care about getting paid when someone does it.

Here’s something more to annoy you: The call system we have at work has an option for a “minimum queue time” So you can make sure that people always have to wait at least a certain amount of time, even with free agents.

A third party launcher for Android(homescreen). It was very beloved for being clean and lightweight while also having a bunch of customization.

It was bought up by an adware company not long ago.

I’m pretty sure this will happen to anyone that has a copilot “compatible” pc and install the patch Tuesday updates… If they use copilot or not.

In a lot of European countries there are local payment apps that work as alternatives. Some banks even have payment support in their own apps.

Check your local market for alternatives, though if your market is the US then there probably isn’t any.

No.

But third party payment apps might work. I’m using one for contactless payments and it works just fine.

Using contactless nfc payment on my grapheneos phone almost daily.

Just not Google Wallet.

Yeah, but you can also sign in by scanning a QR code with a logged in device.

Though technically it’s then other way around, you sign in to your desktop by scanning the QR code in the login window with your logged in phone.

Well yes, but it has it as an option.

QR based sign in

Surely it’ll trickle down this time?

Oh yeah I could, I was more just interested in knowing if there was an automated selection process or something. Purely out of curiosity.

This is quite cool, but I see nothing on how the choice of cities to include was done?

In my case my city isn’t included, and the nearest city that is, is over 100km away on the other side of a mountain. The next one is about 500km away.

I also see plenty of smaller cities here in Norway than mine that are included, so this makes me think the selection of cities was probably made based on largest city within x radius. Would be neat to know how these selections were made.

Yeah, I’m not gonna buy something from outside of my country (Norway), our consumer protection laws are worth so much more to me.

And most of the savings get eaten up by import fees and VAT, it’d still be cheaper but I would lose out on 10 years of guarantee that trumps any warranty.

Harddrives too! I needed more drives for my NAS and looked at drives last week, noticed they’re all up almost 20% in price since summer… So I bought a single drive 5 days ago (18tb) for ~400 eur. That same drive is 610eur right now.

I bought a 1TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD one month ago, it has since tripled in price.

You’re not thinking about when Microsoft bribed their way into them not switching by opening an office in the area?

There’s people running old raspberry pis with USB hard drives.

It’ll run on just about anything.

Though, you’ll only be able to stream original quality, no on the fly quality changes for low speed connections and such.

They talked about streaming VR games from the SteamOS based steam machine to it.

So with that I’d assume we’re finally getting some much needed progress to SteamVR on linux.

Personally I don’t care which state actor it is, I don’t want any of them to have easy access to my data.

If they want it, they should work for it.